But when we're thinking about actual wave behavior of electrons, it's just important to keep in the back of our head that some areas have positive amplitude and some have negative.
Watching the descent of consumer prices this past spring, it looked like CPI growth would approach zero by the end of the summer and then head into negative territory.
Fearing financial turmoil, people prefer to spend money than to save, particularly when real interest rates are negative, says Sergei Guriev, head of the New Economic School.